Heme as a metabolic cell-fate switch - PubMed
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- #heme metabolism
- #regulated cell death
- Heme availability influences mitochondrial function, redox balance, and innate immune signaling.
- Threshold-dependent heme states can lead to various forms of regulated cell death, including cuproptosis, ferroptosis, apoptosis, pyroptosis, or PANoptosis.
- Heme acts as a metabolic rheostat, providing a framework for understanding cell death in contexts like cancer, infection, and metabolic disease.